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Originally Posted by Eddie
Staff Costs: I imagine new train crews would not have final salary pensions, and have lower base rates of base pay and PRP.
They may also want to offer more dynamic ticket pricing that maximises revenue. The Irish Rail ticketing website appears very broadbrush, and I doubt it achieves this.
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Originally Posted by dowlingm
Eddie: that scenario involves no transfer of personnel or obligations to the franchisee. The question then becomes what do IE do with the employees who used to work on these services. some might be redeployed to non franchised services but that will only go so far,
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It's not a realistic proposition to expect that there would be completely new staff taken on though, particularly when it comes to drivers.
There would have to be TUPE provisions involved.
It's totally unrealistic to expect that drivers would not transfer and not retain their existing pay and conditions, given how long it takes to train new drivers - it's a specialised job being able to retain appropriate route knowledge.